Abstract
World record set for oldest message in a bottle For Tonya Illman, a stroll on an Australian beach in January yielded a spectacular souvenir: a 132-year-old message in a bottle—the oldest such bottle ever found. She saw the dark glass container sticking out of the sand on the western coast of Australia, about 180 km north of Perth. A tightly rolled piece of paper was inside, tied with a piece of twine. The message wasn’t a cry for help from an island castaway or a love letter from a grieving widower. Rather, it was a form, in German, filled out with the details of how the bottle came to embark on its oceanic journey. The bottle was jettisoned from a German sailing ship, Paula, on June 12, 1886, 950 km from the spot where it was eventually found. From 1864 to 1933, the German Naval Observatory ran a drift bottle
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